Poland and The United States of America Comparing two countries from completely different sides of the world‚ it is easy task. Two different cultures‚ different people‚ customs‚ and behaviors‚ but also a lot of similarities. Poland knows as a heard of Old Continent with deep roots in European culture. From the other side we have United States of America pretty young country‚ with people that valuing freedom and their social rights. People can think those two countries are completely different‚
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The Solidarity movement in Poland was one of the most dramatic developments in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It was not a movement that began in 1980‚ but rather a continuation of a working class and Polish intelligentsia movement that began in 1956‚ and continued in two other risings‚ in 1970 and 1976. The most significant of these risings began in the shipyards of the ’Triple City’‚ Gdansk‚ Sopot and Gdynia in 1970. The first and by far the most violent and bloody of the workers revolts came
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Poland and the Role of Solidarity Marisa Saldana and Sofia Venegas Overview What is Solidarity? (August 14‚ 1980) ● Independent self-governing trading union ● It was a broad anti-communist social movement ● Used the methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers’ rights and create social change. ● Contributed to the fall of communism and sparked the later Revolutions of 1989 Critical figures Lech Walesa ● ● ● ● ● Most prominent leader of the Solidarity movement Persistent activism
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Do’s and taboos in Poland. Culture is an important part in people’s lives because it provides the messages that tend to shape their perceptions‚ judgments‚ attributions and various ideas of self and other. The cultures around the world are very different and very much the alike at the same time. The way people live around the world depends on the norms internalized by their societies. As I’m studying in Poland‚ I would like to tell about polish culture: its do’s and don’ts.
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always been known as two similar countries. However‚ if we look closely‚ sometimes the differences overcome the similarities between these two territories. Despite all the
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I was surprised at how similar Norway and the U.S. are. Now‚ don’t get me wrong they are complete different nations with different governing styles and beliefs‚ but that’s what surprised me about the similarities. Both countries struggle with teens being on the phone a lot‚ and Norway is very patriotic just like the U.S. Norway’s teenagers are just like us which was apparent with the person I interviewed who was a teen from Norway but had also spent two years in the U.S. He said his favorite food
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in the future. I love to learn about my own family history and for the two trips im going to go on are going to be from my maternal and paternal sides of the family. First my maternal side of the family is from Poland and I will plan a ten-day trip to the many various places to see in Poland. I also have family still there and would plan a side trip one of my days to go visit them. My paternal side of the family s Irish and I will visit Ireland. I will start my travel of a lifetime on July 1st in
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Goldfish and boars and eating their way up into an environmental disaster. These animals may have different habitats and they might be different animals but they have much more in common than you think. Humans started both of these animal issues‚ by not thinking about the habitats of these animal. They brought them to place where they didn’t know how to live and so they ended up destroying the environment around them. A good example is the goldfish. Their owners threw the goldfish into ponds and
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Unlike Scion‚ that marketed their vehicles to the Generation Y‚ there is another vehicle that markets to a different potential age group (Solomon‚ 2011). I chose to compare the similarities and differences of the marketing between Lincoln and Scion. Lincoln has introduced the MKZ on the platform that concentrates toward consumers over the age of 45 (Wright‚ 2014). The marketers of Lincoln utilize the technologies of music and film as a story to advertise their vehicles to this particular age
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social and cultural notions that go along with that. However‚ aside from these minor physical differences men and women are innately the same. Although most people do not realize this‚ the only legitimate difference that is scientifically proven between men and women is that a woman’s body contains two X chromosomes and a man’s contains an X and Y chromosome (Connell‚ 2012‚ pg. 51). This biological difference then allows a woman’s body to develop slightly differently to enable reproduction‚ such
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